How Does Oracle Forms Services Fit into J2EE?

Although the architecture of Oracle Forms Services (Oracle Forms running on the Web) does not fit into the standard configurations mentioned in this chapter, it relies solely on mechanisms defined by J2EE to start and run the form. It is deployed in a J2EE application server, run in a J2EE Web Tier container, and displayed through a web browser on the J2EE Client Tier.

Oracle Forms Services contains the Forms Servlet and Forms Listener Servlet, both of which are standard Java servlet files run in the J2EE Web Tier container (OC4J). These servlets are back-end servlets (as mentioned before) configured using standard J2EE property files. The client interface runs within a JVM in the browser session ...

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